Case Study: Manufacturing and Consumer Goods Company defends against a $400M breach with Fortra

Defending Against a $400M Breach

A Manufacturing and Consumer Goods Company with 60,000+ employees faced a major insider threat when a senior research scientist left and downloaded more than 20,000 sensitive documents, with an estimated breach cost of $400 million. The company needed to protect critical intellectual property across a global network of employees and partners without slowing product development or disrupting workflows, and turned to Fortra’s Digital Guardian.

Fortra implemented Digital Guardian to classify sensitive data in real time, enforce role-based protection, and control how IP could be shared across internal and external systems. The solution created a trusted environment for endpoints, restricted transmission to non-secured devices, and added controls for USB and printing. The result was a pilot deployed in less than two months, then expanded to 50,000 internal and 7,000 partner workstations, giving the company accurate visibility into data flows, secure collaboration, and minimal user disruption.